Greetings!
I tried adding a form to our website for uploading large files.
Personally, I dislike the forms that tell you you did something wrong
and make you re-enter *all* your data again, so this one cycles and
remembers your answers, and only prompts for the file once the rest of
the
Greetings!
I am trying to lock a file so no other process can get read nor write
access to it. I thought this was possible with os.open(filename,
os.O_EXCL), but that is not working. I am aware of the win32file option
to do file locking, so my question is this: what is the purpose of the
Banibrata Dutta wrote:
On 5/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At our site we run IRIX, UNICOS, Solaris, Tru64, Linux, cygwin and
other unixy OSes.
We have python installed in a number of different places:
/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/python
/usr/bin/python
Greetings!
I'm hoping to be able to generate pdf files on the fly -- are there any
python modules out there to do that?
All help appreciated!
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Gary Herron wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings!
I'm hoping to be able to generate pdf files on the fly -- are there
any python modules out there to do that?
All help appreciated!
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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:26 -0300, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
I tried adding a form to our website for uploading large files.
Personally, I dislike the forms that tell you you did something wrong
and make you re-enter *all* your data again, so
Ben Finney wrote:
Subject:
Re: built in list generator?
From:
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:
Wed, 14 May 2008 09:43:43 +1000
To:
python-list@python.org
To:
python-list@python.org
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.python
Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
globalrev schrieb:
if i
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Wed, 14 May 2008 13:51:40 -0300, Ethan Furman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:26 -0300, Ethan Furman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
I tried adding a form to our website for uploading large files.
Personally, I
Johny wrote:
Is there a module for reading/modifing db files from Python?
Thanks for help
B.
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I'm switching my company's software base over from FoxPro 6 to Python.
As part of that effort I have written (and am still enhancing :) a
This module is designed to work with dBase III and Visual FoxPro 6.0 dbf
files, along with their memo files. Index files are not supported.
The table header is read into memory, table data is read into memory on
first record access; field updates are immediately written to disk.
Steve Holden wrote:
Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote:
bock...@virgilio.it wrote:
Constants would be a nice addition in python, sure enough.
But I'm not sure that this can be done without a run-time check every
time
the constant is used, and python is already slow enough. Maybe a check
that is
as if by assignment (pbv)? It seems to me than you end
up with the same thing in either case (in Python, at least), making the
distinction non-existent.
def func(bar):
bar.pop()
Pass-by-reference:
foo = ['Ethan','Furman']
func(foo) # bar = foo
Pass-by-value:
foo = ['Python
Steve Holden wrote:
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:52:20 -0200, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us
escribió:
Steve Holden wrote:
Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote:
One idea to make constants possible would be to extend properties to be
able to exist at the module level
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
So I'm looking for an easy (read: lazy) way to generate output in nice
ASCII tables like the Text::SimpleTable[1] module in perl. I've come
across two so far in the Python world that look promising[2][3] but I'm
wondering if anyone else out there has some recommendations
Johny wrote:
Thanks for your reply.Is it possible to delete a record by using the
module?
Thanks
L
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It is possible with mine. To clarify an earlier post, my module is for
dBase III and VFP 6.0 files only (those were the only two I
Greetings,
I'm looking at the struct module for binary packing of ints and floats.
The documentation refers to C datatypes. It's been many years since I
looked at C, but I seem to remember that the data type sizes were not
fixed -- for example, an int might be two byes on one machine, and
John Machin wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings,
I'm looking at the struct module for binary packing of ints and
floats. The documentation refers to C datatypes. It's been many
years since I looked at C, but I seem to remember that the data type
sizes were
John Machin wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings,
I'm looking at the struct module for binary packing of ints and
floats. The documentation refers to C datatypes. It's been many
years since I looked at C, but I seem to remember that the data type
sizes were
davidj411 wrote:
When you save an open file to a variable, you can re-use that variable
for membership checking.
it does not seem to be that way with the csv.reader function, even
when set to a variable name.
what is the best way to store the open CSV file in memory or do i need
to open the
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
As I've said before - good programmers can write good code in any
language.
So... an eloquent speaker of English is also an eloquent speaker of
Spanish/French/German?
I think your statement would be correct if worded: some programmers can
write good code in any
Andrew Lee wrote:
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
Andrew Lee schrieb:
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
What has that todo with kernel programming? You can use e.g. pygame
to get keystrokes. Or under linux, read (if you are root) the
keyboard input file - I've done that to support several keyboards
Ben Finney wrote:
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only externally visible interface is pushTheButton(), yet you
don't really want to call that during testing. What you do want to
do is test that a random city really does get picked.
Then what you're really testing is the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am testing object identity.
If I do it from the interpreter, I get strange results.
*print [] is []*
*False*
print id([]), id([])
3083942700 3083942700
Why is that? Isn't this an error?
If I test it in a script, all is OK.
#!/usr/bin/python
a
kj wrote:
I'm a Perlhead trying to learn the Way of Python. I like Python
overall, but every once in a while I find myself trying to figure
out why Python does some things the way it does. At the moment
I'm scratching my head over Python's docstrings. As far as I
understand this is the
Mel wrote:
Frank Millman wrote:
Hi all
I have a standard requirement for a 'decimal' type, to instantiate and
manipulate numeric data that is stored in a database. I came up with a
solution long before the introduction of the Decimal type, which has
been working well for me. I know the
Frank Millman wrote:
Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to
refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts.
Firstly, the Decimal type exists, it clearly works well, it is written
by people much cleverer than me, so I would need a good reason not to
use
MRAB wrote:
On Jun 10, 10:57 pm, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for 1 in oids, vals head_oids:
SyntaxError: can't assign to literal
--
1 is a literal, you can't assign it to something. Are you trying to
use it as a variable name?
Slightly OT, but is there an editor that can display
TheSaint wrote:
On 00:15, giovedì 12 giugno 2008 Ethan Furman wrote:
I like Vim (Vi Improved)
What about justifying text ?
Do you mean indenting, or wrapping? Vim has excellent indenting
support, and Python files already included that support proper
indenting, syntax coloring, etc.
I
Alexnb wrote:
Haha, okay well sorry that I was being so stupid, but I get it now
and I apoligize for causing you all the frustration. But I did get it to
work finally.
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TheSaint wrote:
On 01:37, giovedì 12 giugno 2008 Ethan Furman wrote:
Do you mean indenting, or wrapping?
I mean fill the line by increasing spaces between words in order to get a
paragraph aligned both side, left and right on the page.
So if the width is 78 chars it wouldn't have jig saw
Greetings.
The strip() method of strings works from both ends towards the middle.
Is there a simple, built-in way to remove several characters from a
string no matter their location? (besides .replace() ;)
For example:
.strip -- 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.')
'example'
.??? -- ---
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings.
The strip() method of strings works from both ends towards the middle.
Is there a simple, built-in way to remove several characters from a
string no matter their location? (besides .replace() ;)
For example:
.strip -- 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.')
'example
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. New to using Python. Python automatically round off watver i
calculate using the floor function. How wud i make the exact value
appear?
Tried out fabs() in the math library but still confused. Cud some1
elaborate on it.
[python]
---help(math.floor):
Help on
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
(This thread is getting way above 1cp...)
What is 1cp?
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Greetings, List!
I'm working on a numeric data type for measured values that will keep
track of and limit results to the number of significant digits
originally defined for the values in question.
I am doing this primarily because I enjoy playing with numbers, and also
to get some
Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Jul 8, 12:12 am, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Any reason to support the less common operators?
i.e. , , , ^, |
No reason to support any of these for a nonintegral
nonbinary type, as far as I can see.
2) What, exactly, does .__pos__() do
Terry Reedy wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Anybody have an example of when the unary + actually does something?
Besides the below Decimal example. I'm curious under what circumstances
it would be useful for more than just completeness (although
completeness for it's own sake is important, IMO
Ben Keshet wrote:
it didn't help. it reads the pathway as is (see errors for both
tries). It looks like it had the write pathway the first time, but
could not find it because it searched in the path/way instead of in the
path\way. thanks for trying.
The form of slash ('\' vs '/') is
writeson wrote:
Guys,
Thanks for your replies, they are helpful. I should have included in
my initial question that I don't have as much control over the program
that writes (pgm-W) as I'd like. Otherwise, the write to a different
filename and then rename solution would work great. There's no
Dave Parker wrote:
On Jun 11, 10:43 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Those are not /server side/ refreshes...
Correct. But we weren't discussing server side refreshes. We were
discussing how to make the browser refresh automatically in the
server side:
Two things:
Tim Roberts wrote:
Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Keshet wrote:
it didn't help. it reads the pathway as is (see errors for both
tries). It looks like it had the write pathway the first time, but
could not find it because it searched in the path/way instead of in the
path\way
Greetings, List!
Still working on my Measure class, and my next question is... (drum roll
please ;)
What are the advantages of using __[eq|ne|lt|gt|le|ge]__ vs __cmp__?
Thanks in advance!
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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:37:42 -0300, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
escribi�:
Greetings, List!
Still working on my Measure class, and my next question is... (drum
roll please ;)
What are the advantages of using __[eq|ne|lt|gt|le|ge]__ vs __cmp__?
If your
Sean DiZazzo wrote:
On Jul 9, 5:34 pm, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Ethan Furman wrote:
writeson wrote:
Guys,
Thanks for your replies, they are helpful. I should have included in
my initial question that I don't have as much control
Hey all.
My thanks to all who have responded so far with my other questions. It
is much appreciated.
Some background on what I'm doing (a good explanation can be found at
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/phys8.htm): When
measuring, there is some uncertainty as to the
maestroQC wrote:
Hi,
Its one of those days. I cannot solve this. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
When I execute this:
class Db(object):
def insertAccount(self, date, accountNumber, description,
openingBalance):
dec = decimal.Decimal(openingBalance)
db =
maestroQC wrote:
Hi,
Its one of those days. I cannot solve this. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
When I execute this:
class Db(object):
def insertAccount(self, date, accountNumber, description,
openingBalance):
dec = decimal.Decimal(openingBalance)
db =
Ken Starks wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Hey all.
snip
As I have mentioned before, I am making this Measure class for two
reasons: experience with unit testing, I like playing with numbers, I
am unaware of anything like this having yet been done (okay, three
reasons ;).
snip
Any
Iain King wrote:
On Jul 21, 6:58 am, Krishnakant Mane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First off all c# is absolute rubbish waist of time. if I need to
learn it then I better lern java or pythonfor that matter. and by the
way what is a real programmer?
The story of a Real Programmer:
Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, he retracted the *insult* and restated the *advice* as a distinct
statement. I think it's quite worthwhile to help people see the
difference.
Ben, it was quite clear from Anders' post that he knows about
__nonzero__ . That's
Russ P. wrote:
Oh, Lordy. I understand perfectly well how boolean tests, __len__, and
__nonzero__ work in Python. It's very basic stuff. You can quit
patronizing me (and Carl too, I'm sure).
The point that you seem to be missing, or refuse to acknowledge for
some reason, is that if x can be
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 29, 6:42 pm, Matthew Fitzgibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have any postable code (it's in a half way state and I haven't
touched it for a while), but I'll see if I can't find the time to bang
something up to give you the gist.
I wouldn't bother at this point.
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 30, 4:49 am, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even for those that did realize, and in fact hoped that that is what you
were attempting to accomplish,
I was not attempting to accomplish what you think I was.
I was looking for it, but I didn't want to see it. I
Russ P. wrote:
[snippers]
The reason I wrote that it would be nice to be able to write
if x is not empty:
is that it reads naturally.
[and more snippers]
Reads naturally? For whom? Readability counts does not mean make it
sound like english as much as possible. There are good reasons
Anders J. Munch wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Even if we find out that C.__nonzero__ is called, what was it that
__nonzero__ did again?
reinforce the impression that he is unaware of the double-underscore
functions and what they do and how they work.
Only if your newsreader
Greetings, List!
I was browsing through the Decimal source today, and found this:
# We're immutable, so use __new__ not __init__
def __new__. . .
self = object.__new__(cls)
.
.
.
return self
Out of curiousity I then tried this:
-- import
Emile van Sebille wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
-- d25._int = (1, 5)
Python considers names that start with a leading underscore as internal
or private, and that abuse is the burden of the abuser...
Is bytecodehacks still around? That was serious abuse :)
Emile
Good point. What I'm
Calvin Spealman wrote:
[snip]
ask if you really feel the need to know.
I am. ;)
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Matimus wrote:
On Jul 24, 9:32 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Matimus
wrote:
On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Matimus wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Matimus
wrote:
On Jul 24, 9:32 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Matimus wrote:
On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand
Mel wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Emile van Sebille wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
-- d25._int = (1, 5)
Python considers names that start with a leading underscore as internal
or private, and that abuse is the burden of the abuser...
Is bytecodehacks still around? That was serious abuse
Rhamphoryncus wrote:
On Aug 4, 11:46 am, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mel wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Emile van Sebille wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
-- d25._int = (1, 5)
Python considers names that start with a leading underscore as internal
or private, and that abuse
garywood wrote:
stuck on python for absolute beginners
chapter 6
i actually done what i was supposed to do use the function ask_number
for guess a number
but for some reason it does not count correctly the number of tries
# Guess My Number
#
# The computer picks a random number between 1
nntpman68 wrote:
johnewing wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to test if two numbers are of the same
sign (both positive or both negative). I have tried
abs(x) / x == abs(y) / y
but that fails when one of the numbers is 0. I'm sure that there is
an easy way to do this. Any suggestions?
Maric Michaud wrote:
Le Friday 05 September 2008 14:33:22 J. Clifford Dyer, vous avez écrit :
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:48 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help. I'm not opposed to using [key.lower()
for key in stage_map] at all, I was just curious to see if there were
any
bukzor wrote:
I was trying to change the behaviour of print (tee all output to a
temp file) by inheriting from file and overwriting sys.stdout, but it
looks like print uses C-level stuff to do its writes which bypasses
the python object/inhertiance system. It looks like I need to use
Many thanks to Stephen, Marc, Terry, and everyone else. Even thanks to
those whose stubborn refusal to think at the appropriate layer extended
the thread clear off my mail reader's screen.
This is one area where my understanding was weak, and in fact have had
to change code because I didn't
Hamish McKenzie wrote:
I want to write a Vector class and it makes the most sense to just
subclass list. I also want to be able to instantiate a vector using either:
Vector( 1, 2, 3 )
OR
Vector( [1, 2, 3] )
so I have this:
class Vector(list):
def __new__( cls, *a ):
try:
jzakiya wrote:
I'm translating a program in Python that has this IF Then chain
IF x1 limit: --- do a ---
IF x2 limit: --- do b ---
IF x3 limit: --- do c ---
.-
--
IF x10 limt: --- do j ---
len wrote:
Hi all;
[snip]
Here is my problem. I need to start doing this in the really world at
my company converting some older cobol system and data to python
programs and MySQL. I have gotten past packed decimal fields and
various other little tidbits. My problem is the data files
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-11-14, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jzakiya wrote:
I'm translating a program in Python that has this IF Then chain
IF x1 limit: --- do a ---
IF x2 limit: --- do b ---
IF x3 limit: --- do c
len wrote:
On Nov 13, 7:32 pm, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
len wrote:
Hi all;
[snip]
Here is my problem. I need to start doing this in the really world at
my company converting some older cobol system and data to python
programs and MySQL. I have gotten past packed decimal
Greetings All!
I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just
wrapping up support for dates. The null value has been a hindrance for
awhile but I nearly have that solved as well.
For any who know of a cool dbf module already in existence for dBase III
and Visual Foxpro
Greetings All!
I am implementing a NullDate class in order to mirror dates and
datetimes that have no value (yes, this is for my dbf module :)
I'm still a bit fuzzy about class methods, hashing, and __new__, but my
question of the moment is this: it seems to me that with two dates or
sniffer wrote:
On Dec 8, 12:53 pm, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings All!
I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just
wrapping up support for dates. The null value has been a hindrance for
awhile but I nearly have that solved as well.
For any who know
Chris Rebert wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings All!
I am implementing a NullDate class in order to mirror dates and datetimes
that have no value (yes, this is for my dbf module :)
I'm still a bit fuzzy about class methods, hashing
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
for \
Entry \
in \
sorted \
(
f for f in os.listdir(PatchesDir) if PatchDatePat.search(f) != None
) \
:
Patch = (open, gzip.GzipFile)[Entry.endswith(.gz)](os.path.join(PatchesDir, Entry),
r)
... read from
Greetings List!
I'm writing a wrapper to the datetime.date module to support having no
date. Its intended use is to hold a date value from a dbf file, which
can be empty.
The class is functional at this point, but there is one thing I would
like to change -- datetime.date.max and
Carl Banks wrote:
On Dec 10, 5:26 pm, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings List!
I'm writing a wrapper to the datetime.date module to support having no
date. Its intended use is to hold a date value from a dbf file, which
can be empty.
The class is functional at this point
Thanks, Carl! Thanks, RDM!
Your examples and ideas are much appreciated.
Many thanks also to everyone else who responded.
~Ethan~
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Andrew Robert wrote:
Two issues regarding script.
You have a typo on the file you are trying to open.
It is listed with a file extension of .in when it should be .ini .
Pardon?
The OPs original post used .in both in the python code and the command
line. Doesn't look like a typo to me.
Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote:
I've looked at traceback module but I can't find how to limit traceback
from the most recent call if it is possible. I see that extract_tb has
a limit parameter, but it limits from the start and not the end.
Currently I've made my own traceback code to do
Greetings, List!
I was curious if anyone knew the rationale behind making midnight False?
-- import datetime
-- midnight = datetime.time(0,0,0)
-- bool(midnight)
False
To my way of thinking, midnight does actually exist so it should be
true. If datetime.time was measuring an *amount* of
Tim Rowe wrote:
2009/2/22 Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com:
On Feb 21, 10:44 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
-- midnight = datetime.time(0,0,0)
-- bool(midnight)
False
I'd call this a bug.
No more so than zero being false. Zero exists too (check my bank
John Machin wrote:
There may possibly different interpretations of a codepage out there
somewhere, but they are all *intended* to be the same, and I advise
you to cross the different-cp437s bridge *if* it exists and you ever
come to it.
Have you got access to files with LDID not in (0, 1) that
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Dotan Cohen a écrit :
I don't want to learn some
templating language that duplicates what Python already has built
in!
Then use Mako - it uses plain Python to manage the presentation logic.
And if you go for Mako, then you might as well switch to Pylons. Great
Mark Hammond wrote:
On 29/10/2009 11:06 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
So I suggest switching to some other more light-weight installer
technology.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I expect we will stick with MSI even with
its shortcomings. Using MSI files has significant other advantages,
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* James Harris:
You get way too deep into Python in places (for a beginner's course in
programming). For example, from now on I’ll always use from
__future__ in any program that uses print.
Sorry, but I think that hiding such concerns is a real disservice.
The
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Ethan Furman:
Mark Hammond wrote:
On 29/10/2009 11:06 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
So I suggest switching to some other more light-weight installer
technology.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I expect we will stick with MSI even
with its shortcomings. Using
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Ethan Furman:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* James Harris:
You get way too deep into Python in places (for a beginner's course in
programming). For example, from now on I’ll always use from
__future__ in any program that uses print.
Sorry, but I think that hiding
Greetings!
I am happy to announce the latest release of python-dBase (dbf for
short)! At this point it supports dBase III and Visual FoxPro 6 dbf files.
It's a bit quicker now since it's using array.array to hold the records
and not strings, and the API has been standardized. It also now
Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
I was referring to this comment by Ben:
Suggestion: Please don't make efforts to fragment the community.
This IMHO is hostile, because it presupposes that the mere goal of the
OP is fragmenting the community
It presupposes nothing of any goal. It describes a
Simon Brunning wrote:
2009/11/1 Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au:
The only stupid question is the one you are afraid to ask.
I was once asked, and I quote exactly, are there any fish in the Atlantic sea?
That's pretty stupid. ;-)
Are there any fish in the Dead Sea?
Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
I was referring to this comment by Ben:
Suggestion: Please don't make efforts to fragment the community.
This IMHO is hostile, because it presupposes that the mere goal of the
OP is fragmenting the community
It presupposes nothing of any goal. It describes a
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Perfectly valid answer -- there are no fish as there is no
Atlantic sea G
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Once in the distant past, there were no fish in what would become the
Atlantic Ocean (not sea)
What's with the bias against the word 'sea'?
sea
–noun
1. the salt
Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
I'm the king in my castle, although I'm fully aware of the fact that my castle
might be ugly from the outside :)
+1 QOTW
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I can only repeat what I said to Daniel: can you guarantee that the nice
safe, low-risk environment will never change? If not, then choose a more
realistic threat model, and build the walls of your locked box
accordingly.
Seems to me you can't really *guarentee*
Aahz wrote:
In article hdf63i$cm...@reader1.panix.com, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
The subject line says it all.
You are probably trying to remove a screw with a hammer -- why don't you
tell us what you really want to do and we'll come up with a Pythonic
solution?
Well, I don't know
Greetings!
How wise is it to base code on inspect? Specifically on things like
live frames on the stack and whatnot. It occurs to me that this is
leaning towards implementation details, and away from pure, pristine Python.
As an example, I have this routine in a module I'm working on:
def
AK Eric wrote:
so:
# moduleA.py
import moduleB
# moduleB.py
import sys
stuff = sys._getframe(1).f_locals
print stuff
Prints:
{'__builtins__': module '__builtin__' (built-in),
'__file__': 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\userName\\My Documents\
\python\\moduleA.py',
'__name__': '__main__',
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